Queen's Fort

Per its National Register of Historic Places nomination form, Queen's Fort is "located in the northeast portion of the town of Exeter, Rhode Island. Standing at the crest of a wooded hill, the structure consists of dry-laid stone walls (now in disrepair) set between groups of glacial boulders." The form lists its street location as "NE of Exeter on Stony Lane" and its owner of record as the Rhode Island Historical Society; since 1931 it "has been the property of the Rhode Island Historical Society and managed by the State of Rhode Island's Department of Environmental Management." The fort "is traditionally associated with a Narragansett squaw sachem of the seventeenth century named (Queen) Quaiapen and a Narragansett male known to the English as Stonewall John," whom "many writers have suggested" built the stone defenses "early in King Phillip's War," and the site "is also reported to have been the site of the first punitive raids against the Narragansett Indians during King Phillip's War."